29th May 2008
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Modern engineering covers a wide range of products with which we
are really familiar and a look at products like the camera should be
interesting. The camera has changed dramatically as
technology has changed and the range of cameras
available has changed as users have changed too.
are really familiar and a look at products like the camera should be
interesting. The camera has changed dramatically as
technology has changed and the range of cameras
available has changed as users have changed too.
Materials used in products generally start with those that are most common and become more sophisticated as demands of the product change. In photography’s early days it was a small community of quite wealthy gentry who were either interested in the science of the new
Modern cameras
Early cameras
medium- after all the light sensitive plates used a wet process that required the ‘film’ to be made on site just before the picture was taken - or in the artistic possibilities it offered. Now that’s a different market to the users of cameras today - from the users of 35mm film, camera phones or digital cameras with instantly re-viewable images. In between those extremes came the ‘Polaroid’ camera that for the first time gave instant pictures - but not without a little delay of up to a minute or so for coloured pictures dependant on the air temperature when the film processing had been activated. These revolutionary cameras first came out in 1949 but
In the 1840s
and throughout
and leather were readily
available and easy to work.
the rest of that
Century - wood, brass
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